Environmental education and sustainable development : Case of some selected secondary schools in Yaoundé VI.

Abstract

This study was motivated by an empirical discovery that despite the fact that environmental challenges have enormously dominated global, regional and local agendas over the past four decades, environmental education is not given sufficient attention in all institutions especially the secondary schools and to this effect, the sustainable protection of life on life is not strongly achieved. As a result, the main objective of this study was to assess the impact of environmental education on sustainable development in protecting life on land in some selected secondary schools in the Yaoundé VI. Empirical data were collected through questionnaires from a sample size of 200 students while the Pearson correlation test and linear regression analysis were used as statistical tools. Results reveal that education on waste management(r=0.223; p =0.005) and education on gardening (r=0.171; p=0.016) show a positive correlation with sustainable development in protecting life on land while education on green partnership (r=0.139; p =0.049) reveals a weak and positive correlation in protecting life on land. On the other hand, education on green pedagogic actions (r=0.071, ns) show no significant relation with sustainable development in protecting life on land. These results show that Environmental Education plays a major role towards ensuring sustainable development in protecting life on land thus environmental education should be implemented in schools to improve the quality of education for sustainable development.